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on Lynch syndrome.
Annie Yu HJ, Lin KM, Ota DM, Lynch HT. Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer: preventive management. Cancer Treat Rev. 2003 Dec;29(6):461-70. Review.
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Bandipalliam P. Syndrome of Early Onset Colon Cancers, Hematologic Malignancies & Features of Neurofibromatosis in HNPCC Families with Homozygous Mismatch Repair Gene Mutations. Fam Cancer. 2005;4(4):323-33.
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Chung DC, Rustgi AK. The hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer syndrome: genetics and clinical implications. Ann Intern Med. 2003 Apr 1;138(7):560-70. Review. Summary for patients in: Ann Intern Med. 2003 Apr 1;138(7):I53.
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Gene Review: Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colon Cancer
Hampel H, Frankel WL, Martin E, Arnold M, Khanduja K, Kuebler P, Nakagawa H, Sotamaa K, Prior TW, Westman J, Panescu J, Fix D, Lockman J, Comeras I, de la Chapelle A. Screening for the Lynch syndrome (hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer). N Engl J Med. 2005 May 5;352(18):1851-60.
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Lagerstedt Robinson K, Liu T, Vandrovcova J, Halvarsson B, Clendenning M, Frebourg T, Papadopoulos N, Kinzler KW, Vogelstein B, Peltomäki P, Kolodner RD, Nilbert M, Lindblom A. Lynch syndrome (hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer) diagnostics. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2007 Feb 21;99(4):291-9.
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Lucci-Cordisco E, Zito I, Gensini F, Genuardi M. Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer and related conditions. Am J Med Genet. 2003 Nov 1;122A(4):325-34. Review.
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Lynch HT, de la Chapelle A. Genetic susceptibility to non-polyposis colorectal cancer. J Med Genet. 1999 Nov;36(11):801-18. Review.
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Lynch HT, de la Chapelle A. Hereditary colorectal cancer. N Engl J Med. 2003 Mar 6;348(10):919-32. Review. No abstract available.
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Lynch HT, Lynch JF. What the physician needs to know about Lynch syndrome: an update. Oncology (Williston Park). 2005 Apr;19(4):455-63; discussion 463-4, 466, 469. Review.
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Peltomaki P. Lynch syndrome genes. Fam Cancer. 2005;4(3):227-32.
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Rowley PT. Inherited susceptibility to colorectal cancer. Annu Rev Med. 2005;56:539-54. Review.
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Soravia C, van der Klift H, Brundler MA, Blouin JL, Wijnen J, Hutter P, Fodde R, Delozier-Blanchet C. Prostate cancer is part of the hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) tumor spectrum. Am J Med Genet. 2003 Aug 30;121A(2):159-62.
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Umar A, Boland CR, Terdiman JP, Syngal S, de la Chapelle A, Ruschoff J, Fishel R, Lindor NM, Burgart LJ, Hamelin R, Hamilton SR, Hiatt RA, Jass J, Lindblom A, Lynch HT, Peltomaki P, Ramsey SD, Rodriguez-Bigas MA, Vasen HF, Hawk ET, Barrett JC, Freedman AN, Srivastava S. Revised Bethesda Guidelines for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (Lynch syndrome) and microsatellite instability. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2004 Feb 18;96(4):261-8.
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Watson P, Lynch HT. Cancer risk in mismatch repair gene mutation carriers. Fam Cancer. 2001;1(1):57-60. Review.
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Reviewed: April 2008
Published: January 23, 2009